The good old days when we were free
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Sold my tommys ,sold my mg 34 and 42 sold my 1919A4 sold my strumgewhr ,sold my c2 sold my c1 stirling ,sold my m3a1 sold many brens ,sold my ptrd, sold my dshk ,sold my g3s ...am fn done like dinner ..only a couple ,my vickers ,1 bren 1 sten 1 c1 a1 thats it over...
good old days
No pictures(before cellphones) but many years ago, sigh, when I was at UBC, I discovered the BCRA. There was an annual submachine gun shoot. You showed up, showed your membership card and paid a match fee $10 or so (something a starving student could scrounge up). A large military truck showed up and a large soldier would hand you a Sterling (I guess) a couple of 50 rd boxes IVI 9mm. I seem to recall there was a pistol component of the match too and you could borrow an Inglis to shoot if you didn't have your own pistol. The matches were at a range in Burnaby, on the road to Pt. Moody. Most of civilians would shoot the first few stages semi auto so we could get some points, but the last couple of stages most would shoot bursts or mag dumps and watch the hits walk up the backstop onto the backing mountain.The troops were much more disiplined. Police up the brass, turn it in, turn in your submachine gun and Inglis .Tell the nice soldier thanks and drive the beat up VW back to my East side attic apartment to hit the books. And son of gun, nobody got hurt, no crimes were done and there was a lot of smiling. And I just thought of something. I didn't have to clean the toys after I played with them.
I sure feel safer now knowing that sort of unmitagated fun is not going on now. Those were the days, early 70's.
, Jeez I'm getting old.
No pictures(before cellphones) but many years ago, sigh, when I was at UBC, I discovered the BCRA. There was an annual submachine gun shoot. You showed up, showed your membership card and paid a match fee $10 or so (something a starving student could scrounge up). A large military truck showed up and a large soldier would hand you a Sterling (I guess) a couple of 50 rd boxes IVI 9mm. I seem to recall there was a pistol component of the match too and you could borrow an Inglis to shoot if you didn't have your own pistol. The matches were at a range in Burnaby, on the road to Pt. Moody. Most of civilians would shoot the first few stages semi auto so we could get some points, but the last couple of stages most would shoot bursts or mag dumps and watch the hits walk up the backstop onto the backing mountain.The troops were much more disiplined. Police up the brass, turn it in, turn in your submachine gun and Inglis .Tell the nice soldier thanks and drive the beat up VW back to my East side attic apartment to hit the books. And son of gun, nobody got hurt, no crimes were done and there was a lot of smiling. And I just thought of something. I didn't have to clean the toys after I played with them.
I sure feel safer now knowing that sort of unmitagated fun is not going on now. Those were the days, early 70's.
, Jeez I'm getting old.
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We used to rent the winona range as a private club we would shoot mg 34,42,brens,1919A4 ,stens ,Fns of all makes,handguns we did that from 1992 till 2005 when we were no longer allowed to take those guns to the range ...we also did 800 yd lobg range shooting ....no ohe was hurt more then getting scope eye lol ...$1000000.00 insurance cost us $5.00 a head crazy eh so cheap for such a dangerous hobby
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No pictures(before cellphones) but many years ago, sigh, when I was at UBC, I discovered the BCRA. There was an annual submachine gun shoot. You showed up, showed your membership card and paid a match fee $10 or so (something a starving student could scrounge up). A large military truck showed up and a large soldier would hand you a Sterling (I guess) a couple of 50 rd boxes IVI 9mm. I seem to recall there was a pistol component of the match too and you could borrow an Inglis to shoot if you didn't have your own pistol. The matches were at a range in Burnaby, on the road to Pt. Moody. Most of civilians would shoot the first few stages semi auto so we could get some points, but the last couple of stages most would shoot bursts or mag dumps and watch the hits walk up the backstop onto the backing mountain.The troops were much more disiplined. Police up the brass, turn it in, turn in your submachine gun and Inglis .Tell the nice soldier thanks and drive the beat up VW back to my East side attic apartment to hit the books. And son of gun, nobody got hurt, no crimes were done and there was a lot of smiling. And I just thought of something. I didn't have to clean the toys after I played with them.
I sure feel safer now knowing that sort of unmitagated fun is not going on now. Those were the days, early 70's.
I hit a couple of those matches...great time for a few bucks!
(And back then, a source of 9mm brass)
No pictures(before cellphones) but many years ago, sigh, when I was at UBC, I discovered the BCRA. There was an annual submachine gun shoot. You showed up, showed your membership card and paid a match fee $10 or so (something a starving student could scrounge up). A large military truck showed up and a large soldier would hand you a Sterling (I guess) a couple of 50 rd boxes IVI 9mm. I seem to recall there was a pistol component of the match too and you could borrow an Inglis to shoot if you didn't have your own pistol. The matches were at a range in Burnaby, on the road to Pt. Moody. Most of civilians would shoot the first few stages semi auto so we could get some points, but the last couple of stages most would shoot bursts or mag dumps and watch the hits walk up the backstop onto the backing mountain.The troops were much more disiplined. Police up the brass, turn it in, turn in your submachine gun and Inglis .Tell the nice soldier thanks and drive the beat up VW back to my East side attic apartment to hit the books. And son of gun, nobody got hurt, no crimes were done and there was a lot of smiling. And I just thought of something. I didn't have to clean the toys after I played with them.
I sure feel safer now knowing that sort of unmitagated fun is not going on now. Those were the days, early 70's.
I recall visiting BC and shooting a full auto match with CF Sterlings. It was part of the BCRA Service Rifle program.
I owned a Can Arsenals Sterling, so knew that the best score was to shoot semi as fast as I could, or very short 2 and 3 shot bursts.
No children were hurt.
